PeerNet: A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Service and
Application Deployment in MANETs
Anandha Gopalan and Taieb Znati
Abstract:
Ad-hoc networks are an emerging technology with immense potential. Providing
support for large-scale service and application deployment in these networks,
however is crucial to make them a viable alternative. The lack of
infrastructure, coupled with the time-varying characteristics of ad-hoc
networks, brings about new challenges to the design and deployment of
applications on a large-scale. This paper addresses these challenges and
presents PeerNet, a unified, overlay-based service architecture to support
large-scale service and application deployment in MANETs. We discuss
the main functionalities of PeerNet, describe the algorithms for
resource registration and discovery, and present PILOT, a novel power-aware,
location-driven traffic forwarding algorithm to enable node interaction.
We conclude the paper by comparing PILOT to LAR and AODV for a network of
mobile nodes.